Death cap
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The deadly poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides.
"Erin Patterson has told a court that the majority of the mushrooms in a beef wellington dish served in her Leongatha home came from a local supermarket, but says she also accepts the dish contained death caps."
- 2 A potentially dangerous capacitor on the primary side of the power transformer in a guitar amp. slang
- 3 extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills wordnet
Example
More examples"Erin Patterson has told a court that the majority of the mushrooms in a beef wellington dish served in her Leongatha home came from a local supermarket, but says she also accepts the dish contained death caps."
Etymology
From a clipping of capacitor.